All posts tagged "ancient history"
Italy
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
February 16, 2025In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
History
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
February 13, 2025The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
History
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
February 3, 2025"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...




